How do I check if my site is blocking AI crawlers?

Review server or Cloudflare firewall logs for requests from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and PerplexityBot user agents and check their response codes; a 403 or challenge response means the crawler is being blocked before it can read your content.

Will allowing AI crawlers expose my site to more bad bots?

No — you can allow specific, verified AI crawler user agents and IP ranges while keeping bot-fight protections active against everything else; it's a targeted allowlist, not a general loosening of security.

Does robots.txt alone control AI crawler access?

robots.txt only requests that a crawler skip a path — it doesn't stop a firewall or bot-fight rule from blocking the request outright. Both layers need to explicitly permit the crawler for it to succeed.

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